The Dickinson press., 1887-05-14
A New England Colony in the North.
west.

Four days and one-half from Bos-
ton, via Montreal, Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Bismarck, night and
day travel, bring us to the western
boundary of the Territory of Dakota,
the new empire of the Northwest,
now knocking for admission into the
Union as Il sovereign state. Since
Il last visit, in 1884, what great
changes have taken place along the
line of the great transcontinental
Northern Pacific! Through the gate
way of the Northwest has been pour
ing a ceaseless tide of the best immi-
grafton any land eve received, and
to-day on the wheat and corr belt of
the mighty areas of the valleys
drained by the Mississippi, the Red,
the Mouse, the James and the Mis-.
souri,, the New Englander and the
New Yorker shake hands, with a
royal welcome, with the German, the
Swede, the Pole, the Norwegian, the
Scotch and the English, who have
come to populate and cultivate the
granary of America, that the world
may have its supplies Of food.
The embryo towns of 1884 have be-
come cities, while new towns and set
Elements have sprung up so rapidly
that we can scarcely believe our eyes
as they bear witness to this great
Western movement of the worlds
peoples. SO well filled is the country
that we must cross the Missouri to
find the best lands for our New Eng
land colony, about to settle in north
ern central Dakota.
We leave the Pacific-bound train at
Dickinson. the capital of Stark coun.
ty. The SHOWS of the winter have
melted under the influence of the
chinook from the coast, and blowing
and planting L in order in this ex.
cellent sandy loan soil of the Heart
river basin. Here, north and south
of the railroad, are some of the best
unoccupied lands of the West, and
with Il great open country before us
we start for the prairie land south,
near the headwaters of the Cannon
Ball river. Ten miles from Dickin-
son we cross the well-marked trail of
the lamented Custer on his ill-starred
expedition against Sitting Bull in
1915, and we follow for twenty
miles crossing rivers, low buttes
and coulees-the well-worn trail to
Deadwood and the Black Hills, along
which very soon the iron horse will
make his way, to gold and silver
fields, with the products of the wheat
and grazing lands Of Dakota, east of
the Rainy Buttes, and along the trib.
utaries of the north and south forks
of the Cannon Ball river, where we
find great tracts of fine lands we'll
adapted to diversified farming, graz.
ing and grain raising. The lands are
we'll watered, the rivers are constant
and furnish plentiful supplies of
sweet water, with no alkali traces,
while the country is underlaid with
a bituminous Ignite, which can be
had for the digging, OF supplied at
less than So per ton. Here we locate
the town site for n ew England City,
the new town which will soon re-
ceiye the first representatives of fifty
New England-bred families. Our
new colonists will find here Il beauti.
full tract of Government and railroad
lands for their choice, and will enjoy
the full benefits of the colony plan of
settlement, which has done so much
to make emigration to the West com.
Portable, and the opening years of the
new home life pleasant as well as
profitable. Our young town will soon
have its stores. shops, markets. its
p%ost.ofice, printing office, it's church
and schoolhouse, its weekly paper, its
doctor. schoolmaster, lawyer, minister
and all the arts and trades which or
gained society demands.-Boston
Transcript.
Well Boring.